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Automatic Generation of Integrated Formal Models Corresponding to UML System Models

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Objects, Components, Models and Patterns (TOOLS EUROPE 2009)

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This paper presents a complex model transformation that takes two related UML models as input (class diagrams and state machines) and outputs an integrated formal model. The transformation is achieved using the Epsilon model management framework and has involved the definition of new CSP and B metamodels. The target model is a CSPB specification (a fusion of CSP and B) that can be used to analyse the source UML. Through a comparative study we conclude that the code written using Epsilon is more concise than the equivalent model-to-text transformation achieved using the iUML toolset.

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  1. Department of Computing, University of Surrey, UK

    Helen Treharne & Edward Turner

  2. Department of Computer Science, University of York, UK

    Richard F. Paige & Dimitrios S. Kolovos

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  1. Department of Computer Science, Heslington, University of York, YO10 5DD, York, UK

    Manuel Oriol

  2. Department of Computer Science, ETH Zurich, 8092, Zurich, Switzerland

    Bertrand Meyer

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Treharne, H., Turner, E., Paige, R.F., Kolovos, D.S. (2009). Automatic Generation of Integrated Formal Models Corresponding to UML System Models. In: Oriol, M., Meyer, B. (eds) Objects, Components, Models and Patterns. TOOLS EUROPE 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 33. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02571-6_21

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